The Drop

The evolved [Ghoul Heart] has seen its innate talent undergo earth-shattering changes.

Talent: [Ghoul Heart] (Purple)

[Description: Born from the Lead Sickness Toxin consuming three other deadly toxins and mutating. Normally, all toxins are concentrated within the heart. When actively triggered, the toxins spread rapidly throughout the body via the blood, transforming the user into a ghoul!]

[In ghoul form, personal defense, speed, and strength are all enhanced by 100%. Attacks inflict the 'Plague' effect. Pain perception is reduced by 90%.]

[Plague Effect: Those poisoned will experience intense pain throughout their bodies, and white spots will rapidly appear on their skin. When the white spots spread across the entire body, the victim will die from the poison.]

[Side Effect: Under the accelerated erosion of the toxin's outbreak, lifespan will be consumed at a rate of 1 day per minute.]

[Growth Potential: Inject seven new deadly toxins into the heart until fusion and consumption are complete. Toxins Fused/Consumed: 0/7]

Compared to the original talent effect, everything has been enhanced by more than double.

Secondly, a new attack special effect has been added—Plague!

This Plague effect is essentially an enhanced and accelerated version of Lead Sickness Plus!

Doesn't the World Government always claim Lead Sickness is contagious?

Now, as long as Abel is willing, he can spread the toxins in large quantities, allowing those high-and-mighty figures to experience the suffering of the Freyvans residents before their deaths.

What's more terrifying is that the Lead Sickness Toxin is currently incurable.

The Lead Sickness Toxin, after fusing with three deadly toxins, has mutated into an even more troublesome state.

This means that as long as someone is infected, even if they can endure it with their powerful physique, they will slowly fall into a chronic death.

Unless a way to cure this mutated toxin can be found.

This undoubtedly provides Abel with an extremely terrifying offensive capability.

Furthermore, even the side effect, which was previously unbearable, has been greatly reduced. In ghoul form, only one day of lifespan is consumed per minute, increasing its practicality severalfold.

And what's most exciting is that the [Ghoul Heart], having evolved to purple quality, can continue to evolve!

Although the conditions for growth have become more stringent, increasing from three new deadly toxins to seven, judging by the improvement effect, when the [Ghoul Heart] talent evolves to orange, it will surely bring more pleasant surprises!

It's even possible that the [Ghoul Heart] talent will become his first red-quality talent!

Just thinking about it is incredibly exciting!

After 'resurrecting' and resting, Abel went to the back mountain forest again. He needed to test the Plague effect.

As a result, some wild beasts had terrible luck.

They all became his test subjects and met their demise.

After the experiments, Abel gained a personal understanding of the Plague effect.

Firstly, [Attacks inflict the 'Plague' effect] means that without using a weapon, once he enters the [Ghoul State], his entire body is filled with potent poison.

However, this toxin can only take effect after entering a living organism.

In other words, simple contact is not enough; one must touch a wound to infect the target with the Plague.

Or get licked a couple of times.

During the experiments, a leopard bit him, and then it quickly met its glorious end.

Secondly, with the same dose of toxin injected, the larger and stronger the animal, the longer it will endure.

But the onset time of the toxin can be accelerated by increasing the dosage.

Finally, he tried smearing his blood on a short sword, which also caused the 'Plague' effect, and it was easier to inflict wounds on enemies than attacking bare-handed.

It's just that the toxin in his blood can only survive for a relatively short period in the external air after leaving his body, its 'warm incubator.'

This requires him to 'enchant' his weapons multiple times during combat.

This is a drawback that isn't exactly a flaw.

However, overall, the [Ghoul Heart] upgraded to purple quality is quite satisfactory. At least he can use it when needed, instead of it being forgotten.

In a corner of the training ground, Luo was alone, wielding a short sword and hacking at a wooden stake, occasionally casting envious glances towards the center of the field not far away.

There, two figures, one large and one small, were engaged in a fierce 'spar.'

It was Diamante and Abel!

Originally, Abel's sparring partner was Luo, but after Abel absorbed and integrated the combat experience and swordsmanship of the White Yaksha, Luo, as a beginner, was no match for him and couldn't serve the purpose of sparring.

So, upon realizing this, Diamante simply had Luo practice with the wooden stake on the side to continue building his foundation.

Then, Abel's sparring partner became Diamante.

Admittedly, with pressure, Abel's potential was being unleashed bit by bit, with considerable progress almost every day.

He just didn't dare to use the [Wooden Sword Toya Lake] during sparring, for fear of damaging it.

Even so, Luo's swordsmanship progress was falling further and further behind.

"That's enough. That's all for today's swordsmanship lesson."

"Lao G will be here to take over from me later and teach you some physical techniques."

Diamante seemed to have something to do today and only taught for half a day before preparing to leave.

This was quite normal, after all, teaching them was just a side activity; the most important thing was the family's development.

However, as he was leaving, Diamante muttered to himself, "Could there really be such a sword genius? He's only had one practical combat experience, yet he's so skilled it feels strange. It's like he's experienced countless battles."

That sense of incongruity had grown even stronger during their sparring session just now.

No matter how hard Diamante racked his brain, he would never have guessed the truth.

In the end, he could only let it go, attributing this strangeness to some kind of 'talent'.

After all, there were too many people in this world with all sorts of bizarre talents; Abel's anomaly was nothing significant.

After Diamante left, Lao G arrived soon after.

So, Abel took the opportunity to go to the restroom and put on the turtle shell disguised as a round shield.

He adjusted the weight directly to one hundred kilograms.

After one evolution of his Gourmet Cells, plus the training during this period, a hundred-kilogram burden was currently the most effective.

It wasn't that he couldn't increase the weight further, but there was no need for now.

Even so, Abel's performance still surpassed Luo's, and this was even before Abel used the tenfold learning bonus from his [Full Stomach] state.

There was no helping it; being able to cheat really made a difference!

As a result, after finishing all the day's training, Luo left alone, feeling dejected, which made Abel, who had wanted to ask Luo to go for a late-night snack, sigh.

He could not and would not slow down his training progress to accommodate anyone's feelings.

If they couldn't bear such a gap, they might as well give up sooner.